Button v. Hikes’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Button v. Drake (1946), Brown v. Hoblitzell (1957)
42 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Parvin v. Wimberg · State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Holliday · Humphries v. Davis · Middleton v. Greeson · Mode v. Beasley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to ascertain the intention of the legislature, the court should look to the letter of the statute, to it as a whole, to the circumstances under wlrch it was enacted, to the old law, if any, to the mischief to-be remedied, to other statutes, to the rules of the common law, and to the condition of affairs when the statute was enacted. Humphries v. Davis, 100 Ind. 274 (50 Am. Rep. 788); Middleton v. Greeson, 106 Ind. 18 , 5 N. E. 755 ; Wasson v. (First Nat.) Bank, 107 Ind. 206 , 8 N. E. 97 ; May v. Hoover, 112 Ind. 455 , 14 N. E. 472 ; Parvin v. Wimberg, 130 Ind. 561 , 30 N. E. 790 (15 L. R. A. 775, 30 Am. St. Rep. 254 ). Sntb. St. Const. sec. 311, says: ‘The contemporary and subsequent action of tbe legislature in reference to tbe subject-matter bas been accepted as controlling evidence of tbe intention of a particular act.’ ” ( 296 Ky. 163 , 176 S. W. 2d 116 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.